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A GROUP OF MESOPOTAMIAN STAMP SEALS
LATE URUK/JEMDET NASR, CIRCA 3300-2900 B.C.
Including two tabloids of red serpentine, one engraved with a bird and a plant on one side, an antelope on the other, perforation worn, 23 x 25 mm, one engraved with three horned animals in the field, with other linear motifs, 26 x 30 mm, a white marble hemispheroid engraved with a turtle, with a fish and a drill hole in the field, 25 mm diam., a gray stone hemispheroid engraved with lion facing left above a lion facing right, a drill hole in the field, 35 x 37 mm, a white marble blunt-ended oval engraved with a lion attacking a reverse antelope, random drilling in the field, 20 x 33 mm, and one of white marble in the form of a lion head with crosshatched mane and deeply drilled eyes, engraved with a horned animal and a drill hole in the field, 26 x 21 mm (6)
LATE URUK/JEMDET NASR, CIRCA 3300-2900 B.C.
Including two tabloids of red serpentine, one engraved with a bird and a plant on one side, an antelope on the other, perforation worn, 23 x 25 mm, one engraved with three horned animals in the field, with other linear motifs, 26 x 30 mm, a white marble hemispheroid engraved with a turtle, with a fish and a drill hole in the field, 25 mm diam., a gray stone hemispheroid engraved with lion facing left above a lion facing right, a drill hole in the field, 35 x 37 mm, a white marble blunt-ended oval engraved with a lion attacking a reverse antelope, random drilling in the field, 20 x 33 mm, and one of white marble in the form of a lion head with crosshatched mane and deeply drilled eyes, engraved with a horned animal and a drill hole in the field, 26 x 21 mm (6)